COURSES / УЧЕБНЫЕ КУРСЫ

Двигаться вверх. Владимир Попов — о диагностике роста. – Видео лекции в открытом университете, 2019.
Экономический рост в развивающихся странах: теория и практика, внутренние и внешние факторы. – Байкальские чтения, 2013. Видео лекции.

COURSE OUTLINES / ПРОГРАММЫ КУРСОВ

• Macroeconomics-1; Macroeconomics-2 / Макроэкономика
• International economics / Международные экономические отношения
• Comparative economic systems / Cравнительный анализ экономических систем
• Economics of transition / Экономика переходного периода 
• International aspects of economic transition / Международные экономические аспекты перехода к рынку
• European economic integration
• Russian economy in transition / Российская экономика
• Economic History of China, Russia and the West since 1500 – Non-conventional Interpretation 

COURSE MATERIALS for “Comparative economic systems” and “Economics of transition” (compiled with assistance of Tatyana Kuzmenko) / УЧЕБНЫЕ МАТЕРИАЛЫ для курсов “Cравнительный анализ экономических систем” и  “Экономика переходного периода” (подготовлены с помощью Татьяны Кузьменко)

MAPS – countries in transition – Eastern Europe – CIS – East Asia

1. SHOCK THERAPY VERSUS GRADUALISM. TRANSFORMATIONAL RECESSION AND RECOVERY. POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRANSITION.

• Shock therapy versus gradualism. Transformational recession. Transition strategies and performance.
• The leaders and laggers in the Slavic triangle: Comparative economic performance of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. PPP for the University of Toronto conference “The Slavic  Triangle: Between EU and Eurasia”. January 2006.
• Shock therapy versus gradualism reconsidered (15 years later).
• Democratization, quality of institutions and economic growth.
• Russian economy after 1998 currency crisis.

2. TRANSITION ECONOMIES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC SYSTEMS. MARKET SOCIALISM. TYPES OF PLANNING (DIRECTIVE VS. INDICATIVE), SOFE.

• Transition economies in the framework of comparative economic systems. Market socialism. Types of planning (directive vs. indicative), SOFE.

3. REVIEW OF SOVIET ECONOMIC HISTORY – WAR COMMUNISM, NEP, COMMAND ECONOMY, INDUSTRIALIZATION DEBATE. SOVIET ECONOMIC STATISTICS. WAS THE TRANSITION TO THE COMMAND ECONOMY INEVITABLE?

• Review of Soviet economic history – War Communism, NEP, Command economy, Industrialisation Debate. Soviet economic statistics. Was the transition to the command economy inevitable?

4. CPE: INDUSTRIAL ORGANISATION AND STRUCTURAL INEFFICIENCIES. TECHNICAL PROGRESS. 

• CPEs: industrial organisation and structural inefficiencies.
• Life Cycle of the Centrally Planned Economy:  Why Soviet  Growth  Rates  Peaked in the 1950s.

5. PRICES, LABOR MARKET, FINANCE, CREDIT, EXTERNAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS IN CPE. WAS SOVIET-TYPE ECONOMY A PLANNED ONE?

• Prices, labor market, finance, credit, external economic relations in CPE.

6. GORBACHEV REFORMS (1985-91). MONETARY OVERHANG.

• Gorbachev reforms (1985-91). Monetary overhang.

7. MACROECONOMIC POLICY IN TRANSITION (1992-2007). CURRENCY CRISES. 

• Macroeconomic policy in the period of transition. Currency crises.
• Accumulation of FOREX and long term growth.

8. INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE AND INDUSTRIAL POLICIES. TRADE, FOREIGN INVESTMENT, BALANCE OF PAYMENTS.

• Industrial structure and industrial policies.
• Stages of development and economic growth.
• Stages of development and new world economic order.
• Mechanisms of resource curse, economic policy and growth. 
• China´s Rise in the Medium and Long Term: An Interpretation of Differences in Economic Performance of China and Russia since 1949.

9. PRIVATIZATION AND FINANCIAL SYSTEM.  

• Privatization and financial system. 

COURSE MATERIALS for “Economic History of China, Russia and the West since 1500 – Non-conventional Interpretation”

• Economic growth in very long term perspective – since 1500.